San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-03-03
A PHANTOM BRIDE.
By the Author of 1.-THE Ice CAR
NIvAL."

sne literally perlsned from want or
food and exposure to the elements.
She was brought in late on Wednesday
and died before noon yesterday. When
asked what was to be done with her
effects and whether she had any final
instructions to give, she desired that
the three half-pence might be handed to
the nurse, who had been kind to herl
The organ was to be returned to GER
tain address in the City, for, as it
transpired, it was only hired from an
Italian, who made his living by letting
out these instruments of public torture
at so much per week or month";
"Ah, sad enough, for the Onlookers
Jasper grufly; notwithstanding which,
my dear Hollingshead, you must per-
NIT me to doubt whether the deceased
is after all so greatly to be pitied. She
is at rest, her troubles are over; she has
laid her burthen downfall burthen
which, after all, may have been no whit
heavier fitted to her back than that
which most of US, in some form or an
other are destined to bear to the end.
The troubles of this world, in my opin-
ion, are melted out less unevenly than
might at first appear-each human unit
has its share to carry, young or old,
rich or poor. Fill your glass, Holdings
head, and pass the decanter on to
Dickl"
II can't altogether agree with you,
Jasper, there" returned the Doctor,
complying with his hosts injunctions.
"This woman was at most forty years
of age; she had been in all probability
Woodworking and Industrious, accord
ing to her lights, for three parts of her
life, yet ultimately she dies like dog
in gutter, and possibly none of her
own kith and kin will ever learn her
precise fate?"
Had she husband, family, Or"
"Ahl By-the-bye, you remind me of
perhaps the saddest phase in the whole
history; directly consciousness was re-
stored she made anxious enquiries
about child, girl, who should have
been alongside her, she declared, when
she stumbled and tainted in Picca-
dillyl"
Dick, who had so far manifested but
q feeble interest in the conversation, as
he sat slipping his sherry, nursing one
leg and gazing fixedly into the flames,
started involuntarily, his wandering at
tention mesmerically riveted as this
last sentence escaped the doctors lips.
'And it was comical-even whilst
tragical," the good doctor continued
with pitiful smile, "to note the work.
ings of the ruling passion strong in
DEATH When informed that no child
had been noticed in her vicinity, the
poor creature fell to exhausting her re-
manning modicum of breath in vituper-
alton and violent abuse of this missing
tvarmintp "A regular good-for-noth-
ing, idle, gaping mink, that's wot she
wurp the doomed wretch averred, and
it seemed even at that crucial moment
an aggravation of her personal suffer-
ings to picture 'Greta,' as she called
her-the name struck me as at once eu-
phonious and Notwithstanding round
eyed and open-mouthed in at 'coOk-shop
winders, as though there wur nothing
else i thu world t. dol, Was anything
at once so ludicrous and pathetic ever
heardp" questioned the doctor, turning
to his auditors, who both remained
speeches., unaccountably enough.
1t was the baronet who first broke ST.
lenoe.
"This-this child, was she the-the
woman's daughter, do you sayp and
and what age may she have been? Did
thus much happen to transpire-though
really" he added suddenly, with a
strange forced laugh, II hardly know
by what rhyme or reason enquire!"
She did not know the child's age ex.
actly," returned the doctor, "but
guessed it would be about nine or ten
years old-for it was of course necessa-
~ she should furnish the police with
full description, that the girl might be
traced if possible, and taken in charge
under the Vagrancy act. The child
was not hers, she distinctly stated
she had loaned it, as she expressed it,
from some other woman, in order that
it might go on the tramp with her to
collect the coin, and play the tambou-
rine. Quite usual proceeding the
woman inferred. and the police say this